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Personal Color Viewer®

This versatile color visualization program lets you experiment with color before you even pick up a paintbrush. Preview color selections, even specialty finishes, on an interior or exterior home image chosen from a pictorial library, or import images of your own home.

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Pottery Barn

Benjamin Moore and Pottery Barn have joined forces to bring you inspirational color ideas for your home, including palette options for every season.

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Thousand Oaks
(805) 495-7097

2820 Thousand Oaks Boulevard
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362

 

Camarillo
(805) 484-4381

2124 Ventura Boulevard
Camarillo, CA 93010

 

Faux Classes Available

Marbling :   2 Day Workshop   
Instructed by: Mike MacNeil

Students will learn background formation, proper viening technique, use of color combinations to successfully complete various marbles.

Wood Graining :   2 Day Workshop
Instructed by: Mike MacNeil

Students will learn how to match wood colors, reproduce grain patterns found in oak ,walnut, mahogany and more a must in your repertoire of decorative finishes.



Wall Finishing :  2 Day Workshop
Instructed by: Mike MacNeil

Students will learn basic wall finishes which have been standard for many years also some new exciting finishes which are more sophisticated for the higher end homes.



Specialty Finishes :   2 Day Workshop
Instructed by: Mike MacNeil

These finishes are adoptable to furniture and accessories items like lamps, tables, doors and even walls! We will cover ageing, crackling, distressing, metallics and old world finishes

Take All Four Classes Above, You will Receive Venetian Plaster at No Cost!!!!
 

Venetian Plaster :   1 Day Workshop
Instructed by: Brett Simpson with Mike MacNeil

Students will learn to tint and apply Venetian plaster in a layering techniques to create various beautiful looks that smooth and polished, unlike paint or others plasters

Mike has taught over 5000 students worldwide. MacNeil's work has received many prestigious awards throughout his career.  These are  some of his highest honors:  Freeman of the Trade,  Freeman of the City and Guilds of Londons,  a teaching award from the President of Japanese Painters Association, Tokyo, Japan, Trade Qualification-Certificate of Apprenticeship.

 Whether a job is big or small, you can learn the techniques needed to boost your earning potential and enhance your marketplace appeal.  Many of Mike's students have reported tripling their income in the  first year after taking his classes.
 

 TROMPE L'OEIL

The form of illusionistic painting that attempts to represent an object as it existed in three dimensions on the surface of the painting, literally in French "eye fooling".

Instructed by: Mike MacNeil & Patrick Cunningham
(www.mikemacneil.com)

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